SCOTTISH MATERNAL LINES

As a result of my investigations in to my maternal Grandfather's German lineage (refer to all the other weblink pages on this website and The King's Son (The Evidence) (3rd Edition)) , through using FamilytreeDNA.com's Family Finder test, I was able to also investigate my mother's other lineages going way back in time through all her grandparents.

My mother's ancestral lineages, based on her Grandparents, are geographically separate as follows:

This particular webpage and its sub-weblinks, relate to my maternal Scottish G-GF's line - Alexander Hugh McPhee b. 1864 in Greytown (nr. Wellington), New Zealand. His parents were Scottish Highland immigrants, and with the help of a book called "Movern to Glenmorven" and other resources, I discovered they arrived in New Zealand on the good ship Blenheim in 1840 wherein a total of 175 Scottish Highland immigrants landed. There is excellent website calledBlenheim175which provides a lot of detail re their origins, their journey and also the "Morvern to Glenmorven" book.

As a result of the loss of the Battle of Culloden in 1746, and the associated post battle retribution by the forces loyal to the House of Hanover (i.e. King George II), the way of life for the Scottish Highlanders was destroyed - and has never really recovered. As a result, over a period of 100 years after the Battle of Culloden, many Scottish Highlanders emigrated to Canada, West Indies, Australia and New Zealand. As a result, I have many Family Finder cousins in Nova Scotia and other provinces in Canada, plus New Zealand and Australia.

I have discovered, through using the atDNA parsing technique I developed (refer Chapter 8.3 ofThe King's Son (The Evidence) (3rd Edition)), that my Scottish G-GF Alexander Hugh McPhee GG-GP's were from the following Scottish lines, some of which I have a created sub-webpage below this Scottish Maternal Lines webpage:

As a result of atDNA Magnification (refer refer Chapter 10.9 of The King's Son (The Evidence) (3rd Edition) ﻿), I quickly discovered that my Scots ancestors were highly "inbreed", which means that solely using atDNA information - makes it very challenging to determine which Scots lineage was related to the correct ancestor of Alexander Hugh McPhee.

Hence additional DNA data is needed using BIG Y testing, so that each male line "sub-lineage" can determined. For instance there are about 30 different Cameron Clan lineages - which makes determining which Cameron lines I am actually related to very difficult to determine.

We are very fortunate to have Alex Williamson's YTREE available to us, as he places all the BIG Y results on to this tree. Given that a number of the Scots lines are R-L21 Haplogroup, then this resource in very valuable to us - to help us solve our Scottish ancestral brickwalls.

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